Market Watch (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Becton Dickinson & Co. said Tuesday that it has declared a quarterly dividend of 37 cents a share, which represents a 12.1% increase from the previous quarter's payout. The dividend will be payable Jan. 4 to holders of record as of Dec. 14. The medical-technology company also said its board authorized the repurchase of up to 10 million of its common shares. Market Pulse...
Daily Advance - Business (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J. — Becton Dickinson and Co. said Friday it bought molecular diagnostic tes...
Rocky Mount Telegram - Business (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J. — Becton Dickinson and Co. said Friday it bought molecular diagnostic tes...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Becton Dickinson and Co. said Friday it bought molecular diagnostic test maker HandyLab Inc. for $275 million.
The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Aera (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Medical technology company Becton Dickinson has completed its $275 million acquisition of molecular diagnostics firm HandyLab.
MarketIntelligenceCenter.com (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Becton Dickinson (NYSE: BDX) opened at $74.04. So far today, the stock has hit a low of $73.46 and a high of $74.42. BDX is now trading at $73.63, down $0.18 (-0.24%). The stock hit its 52-Week high of $77.11 in January and set its 52-Week low of $58.14 in last November. Morgan Keegan initiated coverage on the stock today with an Outperf...
Climateer Investing (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Like a bunch of groupies standing backstage, Buffettologists await the quarterly changes. That's me, quoting myself. Here's 24/7 Wall Street : Berkshire Hathaway Inc. ( BRK-A)(BRK-B) has shown its Q3-2009 holdings as of September 30, 2009. We had already seen how his securities holdings were up on the books in the holdings with earnings. There are also some portfolio changes that have taken place since...
SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Dividend Inc. submits: On October 9, 2009 , I created a list of ten Dividend Achievers that I felt were the best investments at the time. After having passed the 1 month period, I feel that it is necessary to review the performance of the stocks that were on that list. As with the original article I will show the performance based on those that were ranked from 1st to 10th ( chart ). Wal-Mart ( WMT...
Climateer Investing (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Al's got wood! And implements! As we've commented before this is not a particularly green portfolio. These are only the publicly traded U.S. names. Other investments (GIM is a large holder of carbon trader Camco, CAO.L, for instance) they aren't required to report, so they don't. From the Securities and Exchange Commission : FORM 13F INFORMATION TABLE VALUE SHARES/ NAME OF ISSUER TITLE OF CLASS (x$1000)...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
LITTLE ELM, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Retractable Technologies, Inc. (AMEX: RVP), a leading maker of safety needle devices, announced today that a Marshall, Texas, jury returned a verdict yesterday finding that all three patents asserted by Retractable Technologies, Inc. (“the “Company”) against Becton Dickinson and Company (“BD”) are valid and infringed. The jury also awarded...
Jim Cramer's Mad Money (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Jim Cramer’s Mad Money Stock Picks for Monday November 9 2009. These are all of Jim Cramer’s stock picks that are a Buy! I bold my picks. Buy: Targacept (TRGT) Allos Therapeutics (ALTH) Duff & Phelps (DUF) Apple (AAPL) Google (GOOG) Wells Fargo (WFC) Bank of America (BAC) Goldman Sachs (GS) American Express (AXP) Becton Dickinson (BDX) Genomic Health Inc (GHDX) Fuqi International (FUQI)...
Jim Cramer's Mad Money (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Jim Cramer’s Mad Money Stock Picks for Tuesday November 3 2009. These are all of Jim Cramer’s stock picks that are a Buy! I bold my picks. Buy: Walgreens (WAG) CVS Caremark (CVS) Becton Dickinson (BDX) Cypress Semiconductor (CY) Skyworks Solutions (SWKS) Hartford Financial Services (HIG) China Unicom (CHU) Apple (AAPL) Windstream (WIN) Enterprise Products Partners (EPD) Altria (MO) Celgene...
Madd Money (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Cramer told a viewer that Sinovac Biotech (AMEX:SVA) is a little too speculative and he’d rather play CVS Corp (CVS), Walgreen Company (NYSE:WAG) and Becton Dickinson and Company (BDX) on the growing swine-flu epidemic. Cramer told another viewer that he’s been buying China Unicom Limited (ADR)(NYSE:CHU) for his charitable trust for a play on Apple [...]
MarketIntelligenceCenter.com (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Becton Dickinson (NYSE: BDX) ended the last trading session at $68.36. So far the stock has hit a 52-week low of $58.14 and 52-week high of $77.11. Becton Dickinson stock has been showing support around 67.01 and resistance in the 69.39 range. Technical indicators for the stock are Bearish and S&P gives BDX a neutral 3 STAR (out of 5) hold rating. BDX appears on the Investors Observer Analysts...
Bio Saga (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Becton Dickinson has signed a definitive agreement to acquire molecular diagnostics firm HandyLab for an undisclosed sum. HandyLab sells the Jaguar molecular diagnostics system, which incorporates clinical sample preparation, nucleic acid extraction, microfluidic real-time PCR amplification and detection. The Ann Arbor, Mich.-based firm launched the system in November 2008. BD said that it plans to...
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